BERLIN, May 19 (Xinhua) Germany produced 86 percent more purely electric vehicles in 2021 than a year earlier and 268 percent more than in 2019, the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.
Sales of new vehicles in Europe shrank for the 10th consecutive month, as the industry remains mired in supply-chain crises that are stoking record inflation and threatening to put off buyers.
Registrations last month fell 20 percent to 830,447 vehicles, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said yesterday, the steepest decline this year.
Stellantis NV was the hardest-hit among major manufacturers with a 31 percent drop.
Issues constraining production chief among them being the global semiconductor shortage have led forecasters at LMC Automotive to cut their sales estimate for passenger cars in Western Europe each of the past four months.
They now expect
German car sales suffered another heavy setback in April, official figures published on Wednesday showed, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine added to the headwi
© Provided by Xinhua In addition to the ongoing global chip shortage, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the lack of important supplier parts also have a